Teaching Writing Informal Letters
Contents
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………2
Chapter I. General notion of writing………………………………………………….3 1.1.Writing skills……..………………………………………………………3 1.2. The importance of effective writing skills……..………………………..6 1.3. Informal writing………………………………………………...……….7 1.4. Letter writing……..……………………………………………………...9 1.5. Different types of letters……………………..…………………………11
Chapter II.Teaching writing informal letters…………………………………………13 2.1. Informal letters……..…………………………………………………..13 2.2. Writing informal letter………...……………………………………….13 2.3. Types of informal letters………………………………...……………..20 2.4. Exercises for teaching writing informal letters……………...............25
Conclusions…………………………………………………………………………32
References……………………………………………………………………………33
Introduction
The theme which is under analysis in the given course paper is ‘Teaching writing informal letters’. The main specialization of the work was informal writing and writing of the informal letters in particular.
To achieve the goal of the work the following objectives were:
1. To describe the importance of the writing skills;
2. To show the peculiarities of the informal writing;
3. To analyze the process of teaching writing informal letters;
4. To classify types of informal letters.
Writing style is the manner in which a writer chooses among different strategies to address an issue and an audience. A style reveals the writer's personality or voice, but it also shows how he or she sees the audience of the writing. The writing style reveals the choices the writer makes in syntactical structures, diction, and figures of thought. Similar questions of style exist in the choices of expressive possibilities in speech.
There are two main types of writing: formal and informal.
Informal writing is the relaxed use of language to make a message sound more casual, personal, familiar, friendly or direct. Informal writing often
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………2
Chapter I. General notion of writing………………………………………………….3 1.1.Writing skills……..………………………………………………………3 1.2. The importance of effective writing skills……..………………………..6 1.3. Informal writing………………………………………………...……….7 1.4. Letter writing……..……………………………………………………...9 1.5. Different types of letters……………………..…………………………11
Chapter II.Teaching writing informal letters…………………………………………13 2.1. Informal letters……..…………………………………………………..13 2.2. Writing informal letter………...……………………………………….13 2.3. Types of informal letters………………………………...……………..20 2.4. Exercises for teaching writing informal letters……………...............25
Conclusions…………………………………………………………………………32
References……………………………………………………………………………33
Introduction
The theme which is under analysis in the given course paper is ‘Teaching writing informal letters’. The main specialization of the work was informal writing and writing of the informal letters in particular.
To achieve the goal of the work the following objectives were:
1. To describe the importance of the writing skills;
2. To show the peculiarities of the informal writing;
3. To analyze the process of teaching writing informal letters;
4. To classify types of informal letters.
Writing style is the manner in which a writer chooses among different strategies to address an issue and an audience. A style reveals the writer's personality or voice, but it also shows how he or she sees the audience of the writing. The writing style reveals the choices the writer makes in syntactical structures, diction, and figures of thought. Similar questions of style exist in the choices of expressive possibilities in speech.
There are two main types of writing: formal and informal.
Informal writing is the relaxed use of language to make a message sound more casual, personal, familiar, friendly or direct. Informal writing often
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